Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I will take the specific figure on notice, but I can assure the chamber that this government is absolutely committed to tackling smoking. Smoking causes a cost to this nation on social and economic grounds of around $31.5 billion a year. I would think that it would be something that would be bipartisan across this chamber—that the government and the opposition should ensure that every effort is being made to reduce smoking rates across the nation.